noting how their specialized teeth allowed them to crush shells and feed on creatures other mosasaurs could not. Despite the ...

Fossils are located under the hills of northeast Mississippi and pretty much the rest of the state to one degree or another.

The environmental group Greenpeace has reached an out-of-court settlement with Shell after protesters twice boarded one of ...

The sea water contained large quantities of calcium carbonate. The calcium carbonate precipitated out of the water and eventually solidified into limestone. Numerous marine organisms used the ...

Scientists have found new evidence confirming that turtles once lived without shells. The almost-complete fossil dates back 228 million years and is bigger than a double bed. It was discovered in ...

or silt on the sea floor. Land animals and plants usually decomposed or were eaten, and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved. Fossils can be formed in several ways.

Shell on Tuesday said it had settled a legal dispute with Greenpeace that the British energy giant brought after environmental protesters boarded a ship carrying an oil and gas platform.

Shell Plc and Greenpeace reached an out-of-court settlement over a legal dispute that centered on climate activists boarding and occupying a Shell offshore vessel in the UK North Sea for 13 days.